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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Trump becomes a parody of himself as he runs out of answers and his base erodes

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki looks at how Donald Trump and his team of apologists have run out of answers and excuses for high consumer prices and high gas prices in particular, and the burden that is putting on other Republicans. And then, as if he hadn't lost enough support for his anti-immigrant campaign of terror, starting an unnecessary war, and causing a huge spike in gas prices, Trump compared himself to Jesus.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, if you needed any more evidence announced a tiny bit that Trump has become an absolute parody of himself,

0:09.4

I don't think you could do any better than this incredible moment when the state broadcasters over at C-SPAN tried their best to summarize a recent presidential news conference.

0:22.5

President Trump spoke to reporters outside the Oval Office after having McDonald's

0:27.1

delivered via the online food ordering service DoorDash.

0:30.7

He then took questions from reporters on several topics, including the ongoing conflict

0:35.4

with Iran, and a recent truth social post depicting

0:38.5

himself as Jesus, which he denies, saying he thought it depicted him as a doctor.

0:44.6

I mean, no amount of calm newscaster voice that we've become so familiar with can make any

0:51.8

of that sound normal.

0:52.7

I mean, it felt made up almost like the beginning of a VEP episode

0:56.3

or an S&L cold open, an AI-generated joke.

0:59.3

Who knows?

1:00.5

But that was a real summary of an actual news event

1:04.4

during this presidency very recently.

1:07.2

And we're going to get to that Trump Jesus doctor photo

1:09.5

with Senator and Reverend Raphael Wernock in a second, as I mentioned to Chris.

1:13.4

I'm sure most of you have seen it.

1:14.9

I know Senator Warnack has seen it.

1:17.0

But let's just take a moment to talk about the other absurd part of that absurd summary.

1:23.3

The part where the President of the United States staged a door-dash delivery of McDonald's to the outside entrance of the Oval Office in the White House.

1:31.5

And you may have seen the images of this moment.

1:34.0

If you haven't, there they are on your screen.

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